My journey through life with boys, our real food adventure, and finding joy in the mundane.

Menu

Dinner Menu for the week of 9/28/15

Happy Fall! This season is my favorite. I love the crispness, the soups, the colors and all things pumpkin. Watch for pumpkin recipes in abundance in the weeks to come.

I was able to follow last week’s menu well, which reduced stress. I did find that some meals I really enjoyed, while others we simply eaten to give my body nourishment. While I planned for dinner, I struggled to find things that would satisfy for lunch and snacks. I need to do a bit more prep in the evenings to have grabbables.

Last week’s menu in review:

I really enjoyed the chicken, bacon asparagus salad, and the mexican chicken chowder. The scallop recipe I put on the menu last week is a super easy staple that I LOVE. To my dismay, my husband admitted to not really liking the flavor combo, and requested that it not get much play in the future menus. (Insert: SHOCKED FACE!!!) The only meal I did not enjoy was the balsamic beef. It may have been the cut of beef that I used, but something about the fatty cut and the flavor of the sauce did not work well. I am still trying to choke down the left overs. 😦

Yummy Mexican Chicken chowder soup!

In an attempt to have some breakfast and lunch options for the week, I chopped some russet and sweet potatoes and fried them up in the same skillet I used to cook some chopped bacon. I reunited the bacon and the potatoes on a few different occasions, and topped with a runny fried egg. So satisfying.